ell, here we are. The holidays are now past us and we are well into the new year, resolutions and all.
Incidentally, I have no real resolutions, personally, other than needing to get everything back on track with diet and lifting. They both took a hit with the holidays- gaps between lifts were longer than normal and diet, well, diet has been pretty wickedly bad the last four weeks or so.
Part of those gaps was a little whirlwind trip to Chicago with the fam. Should have a bunch of pics from that coming up in the next few weeks.
So many pictures. Such feels. Wow.
So many pictures. Such feels. Wow.
That all said, the "8s" wave of Juggernaut is all wrapped up. The first week (Accumulation) of the 8s wave wrapped up right around the first of the year, moved into and wrapped up the Intensification week.
I think I formerly referred to this phase as "Transformation", which is incorrect. My apologies to Chad Wesley Smith for screwing up the nomenclature. It's called "Intensification" because it's really intense, brah.
In the interest of full disclosure, I had to hurry and keep typing after I posted this image to get it to scroll off my screen.
Yeah. Like wow.
Accumulation and Intensification squat day DOMS are, in fact, the worst. I have been adding in some light periodic stretching through the day following these, but it has yet to help.
Need to take some Wendler advice and run Agile 8 or similar on off days. Probably a few times.
God bless.
Anyhoo, wrapped up that bidness and got into the Realization phase. All went reasonably well, added weight to all lifts, time to deload and get into the 5s wave.
Metal.
Incidentally, the above track is from Job For A Cowboy's newest album, Sun Eater, which came out in November. It has managed to work itself into my near constant Meshuggah rotation, and it pleases me. If you're into the death metals, I would recommend sticking the whole album in your ear hole.
Back to lifting, etc.
A couple of things feel like they have been helping the process a bit - and it all boils down to back and shoulder work, go figure. Early in the wave, I decided to add rehab work in every session for the ol' shoulders. This consists of band pull aparts with the good ol' EliteFTS red mini Pro band and "Ws" with the orange micro Pro band. Additionally, I am trying to be sure to add in plenty of lat pull downs and T bar rows into the mix.
Diet, etc, have slipped a bit during the holidays/my birthday- turned 37 the other day.
That plus adding creatine back into the supplemental rotation has slowed things down a bit on the weight loss front.
But I'm getting all jacked and tan, right?
Yeah, not enough to make up for the weight gain.
Like next weight class up gain.
That means we must tighten back up and burn some more calories. And that means more things in blogs.
Things like bikes.
Yeah. Mountain bikes.
Through a strange and fortunate event, I have semi-permanently inherited a Motobecane 29er. Nice bike, want to ride it, need to change the pedals out. Thanksfully, a buddy of mine runs a bike repair truck and had a pair of pedals that he rebuilt that I can try before buying, so I am a 6mm hex wrench away from cardio that is more fun than running. Yay!
So that about wraps it up. Till next time, go forth and listen to more metal.
Accumulation and Intensification squat day DOMS are, in fact, the worst. I have been adding in some light periodic stretching through the day following these, but it has yet to help.
Need to take some Wendler advice and run Agile 8 or similar on off days. Probably a few times.
God bless.
Anyhoo, wrapped up that bidness and got into the Realization phase. All went reasonably well, added weight to all lifts, time to deload and get into the 5s wave.
Metal.
Incidentally, the above track is from Job For A Cowboy's newest album, Sun Eater, which came out in November. It has managed to work itself into my near constant Meshuggah rotation, and it pleases me. If you're into the death metals, I would recommend sticking the whole album in your ear hole.
Back to lifting, etc.
A couple of things feel like they have been helping the process a bit - and it all boils down to back and shoulder work, go figure. Early in the wave, I decided to add rehab work in every session for the ol' shoulders. This consists of band pull aparts with the good ol' EliteFTS red mini Pro band and "Ws" with the orange micro Pro band. Additionally, I am trying to be sure to add in plenty of lat pull downs and T bar rows into the mix.
Diet, etc, have slipped a bit during the holidays/my birthday- turned 37 the other day.
That plus adding creatine back into the supplemental rotation has slowed things down a bit on the weight loss front.
But I'm getting all jacked and tan, right?
Yeah, not enough to make up for the weight gain.
Like next weight class up gain.
That means we must tighten back up and burn some more calories. And that means more things in blogs.
Things like bikes.
Yeah. Mountain bikes.
Through a strange and fortunate event, I have semi-permanently inherited a Motobecane 29er. Nice bike, want to ride it, need to change the pedals out. Thanksfully, a buddy of mine runs a bike repair truck and had a pair of pedals that he rebuilt that I can try before buying, so I am a 6mm hex wrench away from cardio that is more fun than running. Yay!
So that about wraps it up. Till next time, go forth and listen to more metal.
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